Other Publications
“A Crazed Lunatic in the White House:” W.P. Beard, Racism, and Opposition to World War I. Recovering the Piedmont Past Volume II: Bridging the Centuries in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1877-1941. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.
This book chapter examines the publishing career of W.P. Beard, owner and editor of the Abbeville Scimitar. Beard opposed the United States’ entry into World War I on the grounds that America would be opposing the racial purity of the German state while allying with France and Britain who were using African and Asian troops on the battlefield. A notorious racist, Beard found himself charged with Federal crimes in 1917 for his opposition to the American war effort.
“May the Lord Keep Down Hard Feelings:” The Woodrow Evolution Controversy and the 1884 Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina in Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth Century Upstate South Carolina History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013.
In 1884, South Carolina Presbyterians and others were captivated by an evolution controversy that began upon learning that the well-respected seminary professor Rev. James Woodrow was teaching evolution to his students at Columbia Presbyterian Seminary. Woodrow insisted that the Bible was a religious document and not a basis for scientific understanding. The crisis pitted science versus religion and divided friends and colleagues.
“The United States’ Response to Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia,1941-1945.” Genocide Studies and Prevention 3 (2008): 75-98.
Often overlooked in mainstream works, the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, a regime under Ante Pavelić that was allied with the Third Reich, killed tens of thousands of Serbians, Jews, and Roma in the notorious Jasenovac camp and in other areas around the state. Pre-dating the systematic execution of Jews in Nazi Germany, this genocide, gained very little attention from American government officials.
“‘Crusading Sentimentality:’ British Intellectuals and the Clash over National Self-Determination in Eastern Europe, 1914-1918.” The Proceedings. (2007): 71-83.
During World War I, not everyone believed that national self-determination was the proper policy for crafting a lasting peace in Europe. Some argued for the continuation of multi-ethnic states instead of their division, maintaining that national self-determination would create small, jealous, and economically challenged countries. These arguments, in general, were cast aside with the growing wave of nationalism and Woodrow Wilson’s support for national self-determination.
“Noel Buxton, the Balkan Committee and Reform in Macedonia, 1903-1914. Antiquity and Modernity. Athens, Greece, (2004): 151-166.
A lobbying group in Britain, the Balkan Committee eagerly sought to bring attention to harsh Ottoman policies in Macedonia that often led to violence and death. The pro-Bulgarian group often annoyed British politicians in their zeal to defend the peoples of Macedonia